Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-11 Thread Adam Aube
Danie Roux wrote: > Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. > In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that > needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: > It gets so bad that the mouse starts jerking! Have you adjusted the priority of X? Check /etc/X11/Xwrapper.

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Danie Roux wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:09:47PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-06 Thread Caveman
What kind of motherboard and harddisk ? Caveman On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:18:03 +0200, Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. > > In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that > needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: > >

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-06 Thread Danie Roux
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:09:47PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Danie Roux wrote: > > >Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. > > > >In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that > >needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: > > > >top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users,

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-06 Thread John Summerfield
Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: I/O contributes to load average. Nothing startling there. top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.88, 1.37 Cpu0 : 10.3% us, 4.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.3% id, 8.7

Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-03 Thread Danie Roux
Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.88, 1.37 Cpu0 : 10.3% us, 4.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.3% id, 8.7% wa, 0.7% hi,